Chapter 610: The Great Battle of Liaodong Bay

At the mouth of the Liao River, a tragic naval battle is in full swing.

Despite the hundreds of paces, Yu Fei could feel the annoyance and anger of the commander of the Bohai Navy. He was chased out of the waterways of the Liao River, and the Bohai Sea Army, which was eager to save face and improve morale, bit him to the death, and had the taste of chasing him to the ends of the earth.

Yu Fei fled very embarrassed, Zhang Wenxiu led the main force to chase after him, and dozens of people relied on their speed, from time to time from both sides 'forced' over to release arrows to 'disturb', in an attempt to slow down the speed of the "Yu Fei".

At the moment of the great enemy, entanglement with a nimble and light boat is equivalent to suicide. The "Yufei" could only swallow its anger, ignore the provocation of the "flies", and run away.

As soon as he left the mouth of the Liao River, Zhang Wenxiu's fleet came under fierce attack.

There is no Zhang butcher, and he eats pigs with 'hair'. Facts have proved that both naval and land battles have their common denominators, and strategy can be of great value in all battles. Although it was a *** battle, Feng Changqing was calm and calm, without any cowardice. The general's words of 'essence' were engraved in his heart: winning the battle is very simple, that is, to give full play to one's own strengths as much as possible and greet the enemy's soft underbelly.

Feng Changqing obviously learned and put it into practice. He set the mouth of the Liaoshui Sea as the battlefield, and used Yufei as the 'lure' bait, responsible for luring the Bohai Sea army into the ambush circle.

In naval warfare, if you attack the enemy's weaknesses with your own strengths, you must seize a formation that is favorable to the enemy. Feng Changqing didn't know what British garbage T, but he knew that if he wanted to maximize the power of long-range attack weapons, and at the same time make the enemy's long-range weapon heroes useless, then he could only use the horizontal hull to face the enemy's bow.

In fact, there is no such thing as an ambush, some are just Feng Changqing to take the lead in the formation.

Zhang Wenxiu is a veteran, and he can see at a glance that the opponent's hull has a huge advantage in swinging horizontally, and all the opponent's catapults and winch crossbows can attack him a little bit on the ground.

Realizing the problem does not mean that it can be avoided, and it takes longer for orders to be communicated and put in place between ships at sea than in land warfare. After Zhang Wenxiu's urgent order, when the Bohai fleet was just beginning to turn, Feng Changqing's fierce offensive came as scheduled.

The main force of the Liaodong fleet consisted of a total of six building ships and eight fighting ships, excluding the "Yufei", that is to say, the first *** hit, fifteen large stones and nearly three hundred large and small crossbow arrows densely covered the flagship of the Bohai Division.

The size of the stone throwing machine in the Tang Dynasty was abnormally perverted, and it was reported that there was a stone throwing machine that required 200 people to 'operate', and the power was huge.

The stone throwers on the Liaodong fleet building are not so big, but each stone throwing machine is also equipped with nearly 100 people, and several people have to be dispatched at the same time to carry a huge "cannonball" alone.

Zhang Wenxiu was on the flagship, experienced a terrible storm, two large stones fell within a dozen steps of his battleship, and the "excited" huge "waves" crashed heavily on the side of the battleship, making the hull tilted in a sharp turn even worse. Zhang Wenxiu fell into the command building, his face was blue and his nose was swollen, and a personal soldier flew out of the window in front of his eyes and fell into the sea.

At that moment, on the flagship, everyone had a frightened and desperate thought: the boat was going to capsize and feed the fish!

It is normal to have such thoughts, and the huge 'waves' overturned more than 200 people, and more than 50 soldiers fell into the water from the other side of the boat.

After the 'wave' and 'wave', Zhang Wenxiu thanked the white-eyed wolf they admired for letting him survive safely!

The second building ship that followed also experienced an overwhelming attack, and her crew was unfortunate that they did not have a chance to thank the white-eyed wolf, although the boulder still failed to hit the target, but the huge 'waves' they set off completed the mission for the boulder, and the building ship of the Bohai State fleet was turned upside down.

The third enemy ship was clever enough to see the gaps in the fire of the catapult and the winch crossbow, and at the cost of the life of the robe, dodged the attack.

The fourth was a fighting ship, which just happened to bear the treatment that the previous battleship did not receive.

The stone thrower finally relieved Feng Changqing's egg pain slightly, and a boulder accurately smashed into the stern of the fighting ship, and the enemy ship was obviously tilted and shifted instantly, shook a few times, and was gradually swallowed by the sea 'waves'.

Zhang Wenxiu is worthy of experience, and at the critical moment, he does not lack the courage of a strong man with a broken arm, and while ordering the main force to turn, he sent an attack signal to more than a dozen small boats. He didn't expect any results from the small fleet under his command at all, and the essence of this order was to let more than a dozen ships sacrifice the small self to complete the big self, and buy time for the main force to counterattack.

Maybe it was the sailors who looked down on the decline of the Tang Dynasty, or maybe there were many warriors in the Bohai Kingdom, and more than a dozen ships did not avoid the battle, and then the wind launched a collective charge.

Seeing this, Feng Changqing waved his flag and divided all the fighting ships to meet the enemy's crazy boats, and the building ships continued to 'wait' for the enemy's main force in the turn.

The egg hurts, the egg hurts, it's still the egg hurts, round after round of attacks, missing the target again and again, the catapult is this virtue, since you want to use it, you have to tolerate its inefficiency.

It wasn't until the last hapless ship managed to get two percent hits to the trebuchet with a sinking fate that the encounter came to an end.

Over 100 rounds, only the second hit!

The results of the winch crossbow are difficult to calculate, the distance is too far to see whether the crossbow arrow hits or not, and even if it hits the target, unless it is below the hull waterline, it is difficult to have too much damage to the huge warship, after all, it is hundreds of steps away.

The east is not bright, and the west is bright. The winch crossbow is not good against large ships, but it is obviously easy to deal with small boats. Before the more than a dozen small boats of the Bohai State fleet approached, the three ships that rushed to the front were swept away by the winch crossbow, suffering heavy casualties and completely losing their combat effectiveness.

The rest of the boats followed the wind and swarmed desperately.

Hand-to-hand combat is inevitable.

Feng Changqing ignored the small boats of the Bohai State Naval Division, and ordered the building ship battle fleet, including the "Yufei", to continue to turn to prevent the Bohai rebellious naval division from seizing the T-shaped prefix.

Because of the lack of navigation knowledge, Feng Changqing 'handed over' the command of the formation to Yu Fei.

On the experience of sea navigation and combat, Yu Fei also looked at Zhang Wenxiu's back. After several battles, the Liaodong fleet barely maintained a parallel posture with its opponents.

The battlefield is divided into two parts, the main battlefield is light, and the two sides are separated by hundreds of paces to attack each other with stone throwers or winch crossbows; The 'hand-to-hand' combat on the secondary battlefield has entered a white-hot stage, with both sides stumbling and throwing arrows and spears, and even pouring fuel and setting fires.

The battle situation was unfavorable to the Bohai fleet, and this conclusion can be drawn from Zhang Wenxiu's frowning brows.

On the main battlefield, the Bohai State only has five main warships, including two building ships, three fighting ships, and the opponent's six are all building ships, and the number of stone throwers is eighteen to five, and the Bohai State is at an absolute disadvantage, and the quality is still a lot worse. Originally, Zhang Wenxiu's flagship had three stone throwers, but because of the loss of more than 50 people, one was forced to be vacant.

The hit rate of the trebuchet is indeed ashamed, Zhang Wenxiu is not worried about this, his worry is in the secondary battlefield.

On the sub-battlefield, the small boat fleet of the Bohai Kingdom firmly affected the nerves of their commander, and their identities were abandoned before, and they were suddenly pinned on their hopes again.

Zhang Wenxiu saw clearly that there were too many opponents, but their fighting ships were entangled by their own ships and could not be separated for the time being. However, the fleet of ships made up of ships is not destined to be a match for the fighting ships that are several orders larger than them in size.

The development of the war situation is close to Zhang Wenxiu's judgment and is also in line with objective facts.

'Hand-to-hand' combat has always been crisp, the white knife goes in and the red knife comes out, and the winner is quickly decided.

On the surface of the sea, the fire was raging, the smoke was billowing out, and the wreckage of the ship's hull and the people struggling to survive were wafting with the sea's 'waves'. None of the more than a dozen small boats of the Bohai State survived, while more than half of the fighting ships of the Liaodong fleet were lost, two were destroyed in the fire, two were damaged, several pieces of canvas were burned through, and some of the ability to borrow wind was lost.

The striking ability of the Walker is terrifying, and the power of arson cannot be underestimated. Because of the tight time, the Liaodong fleet only replaced the canvas of the building ships, and the rest of the sea ships did not have time to replace the fire cloth, and the eight fighting ships paid a heavy price for this.

Zhang Wenxiu was very frustrated, and the death squad that attacked the wind had achieved unexpected results, but they could not create a miracle. He was quite remorseful that he didn't bring all the boats out, otherwise it would be difficult to say who would have died today.

The freed up fighting ships left two damaged fighting ships to rescue the overboard, and the remaining two fighting ships with intact combat strength quickly joined the main battlefield, circled the flank of the Bohai Fleet, and attacked the enemy's fighting ships in two against one.

The battle situation became more and more unfavorable for the Bohai fleet, and even luck gradually moved away from them, and the power of the stone thrower of the Liaodong fleet gradually appeared, and several large stones fell around Zhang Wenxiu's flagship, and the "wave" and "wave" of the 'surge' brought everyone on the flagship a shaking feeling. What's even more unfortunate is that a giant crossbow swept a winch crossbow at the tail of the flagship, not only destroying the winch crossbow, but also killing and wounding more than a dozen people on the spot.

Yu Fei finally felt the benefits of the improved stone thrower.

In parallel duels, a stone-throwing machine equipped with counterweights has an advantage over the usual stone-throwing machine in terms of 'shooting' range and accuracy.

The current situation on the battlefield is that the Liaodong fleet is equipped with counterweight stone throwers, and the Bohai fleet uses ordinary stone throwers.

As time passed, the magic of probability began to take over the role of the lucky goddess.

The officers and men of the Liaodong fleet had a long time in pain, and they didn't know which of the boulders that the building ship 'shot' hit the probability and hit the target. The boulder swept through the superstructure of one of the fighting ships of the Bohai Fleet, almost turning the surface of the fighting ship into a "large flat top" of the aircraft carrier, and the main mast hanging the sail disappeared.

Good things come in pairs, and immediately after, another boulder hits the waterline of another fighting ship, smashing a large hole. Fortunately, the Bohai people used the technology of the Celestial Empire and learned to divide the ships into cabins, and the battered fighting ship was barely able to float on the surface of the sea.

Zhang Wenxiu was shocked, the superior performance of the Tang Army's sailors far exceeded his imagination. The more they fought, the more they fought, the more confident they fought, and gradually took the initiative to shrink the distance, allowing the winch crossbow to exert its power.

Compared with the catapult, the frequency of the crossbow fired by the winch crossbow is also higher, and it is easier to hit the target. If he had fought with a winch crossbow at the beginning, Zhang Wenxiu was confident that he would be able to draw his hand, and in the middle of the battle, his fleet suffered heavy losses, especially the lack of manpower, which led to a weak counterattack.

At this point in the fierce battle, only one half-floor ship and one fighting ship remained in the Bohai State Fleet.

No more fighting!

As soon as Zhang Wenxiu's determination was made, several crossbow arrows flew in, causing a bloody storm among dozens of people on the bow stone throwing position.

Screams and wails filled Zhang Wenxiu's eardrums, blood and wreckage filling his pupils.

Remove!

The order was transmitted to the commanders of the ships by the sound of drums and flags.

There is a big difference between retreat and flight, often the order is to retreat, but in fact it has evolved into a flight, the key is that no one is willing to break the back, even if it is a death squad that lives for a lifetime, a quarter of an hour ago they still ignore life and death and howl on the offensive road, when they are replaced by retreat, they are no different from the performance of the nest rout, and the morale is diametrically opposite.

Maybe it's because of the psychological effect, but no matter how you explain it, the reality is so magical.

The Bohai Fleet collapsed, and the other building ship that was ordered to break by Zhang Wenxiu pretended to be deaf and dumb and fled faster than anyone else. However, there are two fighting ships that did not escape, one has no mast and cannot borrow the wind, and the other cabin is in a semi-submersible state, and the heart is powerless, waiting for their fate is very sad, several fighting ships of the Liaodong fleet will use winch crossbows to send rockets, and bury them in the belly of the fish.

The main generals of both sides were not interested in the main battlefield in the past, and they were busy running away and chasing.

In the case of a headwind, the ship can zigzag and borrow the wind to move forward, however, the speed depends more on manpower. After the bitter battle, Zhang Wenxiu's flagship panicked, and a large number of fighters were added to the ranks of the oaring coolies in the bottom cabin, losing the power to counterattack, and could only grit their teeth to endure the throwing of stones and arrows from the pursuers, especially in the process of "zigzag" turning, the threat of smashing boulders and 'shooting' crossbow arrows was quite large.

"Yufei" is brave and at the forefront.

"The third-position winch crossbow, ready to fire!"

Yu Fei stood on the command floor, calm and relaxed. He showed his morality and self-confidence, and he continuously gave orders and maneuvers, grabbed a favorable position in time, and waited for the enemy to enter the 'shooting' realm.

More than a dozen sailors gritted their teeth and pushed the winch, imparting the power of their knotted muscles and 'flesh' to the stretched crossbow strings.

"Knock knock!"

Yu Fei decisively beat the drum and urged to 'shoot'.

Last to fall was the only remaining fighting ship of the Bohai State Fleet, which crashed into the attack range of the "Yufei" in a panic.

The strings were piercing, and seven crossbow arrows whizzed through the air.

Today is the day when Yu Fei's character explodes, and the lucky 'female' god and the probable god all stand by his side.

Three of the seven, in which the main crossbow hits the command building of the enemy ship, and the fighting ship is demolished by one floor in an extremely domineering manner, and the other two slightly smaller crossbow arrows penetrate the hull above the hole, where the rower is. It wasn't long before blood 'mixed with' the sea water and came out of the hole.

The two sides pursued and fled, and the battlefield gradually shifted to the mouth of Liaoshui.

At the mouth of the sea, Zhang Wenxiu saw hope, and more than a dozen boats drove southward with the wind.

"White-eyed wolf god! You have finally heard my prayer! ”

Zhang Wenxiu was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered: "Quick, let the responding walker launch an assault!" ”

The speed of the ship is already fast, and the tailwind is even more terrifying, and there are already fresh examples of battle just now.

Suddenly, the drum order was urgent, and the flag order was urged.

Hearing the order, more than a dozen small boats increased their acceleration, forward, forward, and forward.

"That's not right! What do they want to do? Rebellion? ”

Zhang Wenxiu exclaimed, the direction of the assault of the fleet like an arrow was where his flagship was!

The fleets that came by surprise were Feng Changqing's pre-ambush soldiers, and the leader was Chu Tiankuo!

"It's over!"

Zhang Wenxiu closed his eyes in pain, not even having the strength to struggle. The fighters on the flagship were rowing in the bilge, and the slapping rods became a bulky ornament.

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